Hi Mehwish,
Yes this can be done. You can set the Entity Generator's 'Time source' to 'MATLAB action'. In the action method you can access the workspace variables and set the value of dt (intergeneration time) to be 0 for N times, then set it back to the next IGT. For example:
persistent idx;
if isempty(idx)
idx = 1;
end
N = 5; % Read from workspace
IGT = 1; % Read from workspace
if idx < N
dt = 0;
idx = idx + 1;
else
dt = IGT; % Set equal to next IGT
% Reset idx
idx = 1;
end
You can see the example 'seExampleEstimatingAssemblyLineThroughput' that reads the generation schedule from an excel sheet. Although the batch size is always 1.
Hope that helps!
- Krishna
